Bobroff Presents on Alternative Grading
On November 18, Maria Bobroff gave a presentation entitled “Adventures in Alternative Grading” at the ACTFL conference held in Chicago. She organized the presentation with Laura Florand, Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Director of the French Language Program at Duke University. Together they shared how alternative grading, also known as ungrading, rewards […]
Jennifer Cazenave Speaks on Lanzmann’s Shoah
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, was recently featured in a major retrospective on the works of filmmaker Claude Lanzmann held in Paris. She tells us: “As part of the Claude Lanzmann retrospective organized by the Bibliothèque publique d’information at the Centre Pompidou, I gave a public lecture on Wednesday 11/22 (picture above) on the […]
Mancuso Presents at 19th Century French Studies Conference
On November 11, Eleonora Mancuso presented a paper entitled “Blocked Passages and Paralysis: Women in Zola’s Thérèse Raquin and La Curée” at the Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference in Baltimore. Using a Disability Studies lens, her paper investigates how the Parisian passages, dreamlike spaces of modern consumption, are instead prison-like sites where women suffer from […]
Huckle Publishes 2 Translations
Nicolas Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, has published two translations: “Picasso’s Mooch” by Yve-Alain Bois. This is an essay in the English version of the French contemporary artist Sophie Calle’s book, Picalso. Published by Atelier EXB, the book accompanies her current exhibition “À toi de faire, ma mignonne (Over to you, sweetie)” at the Musée Picasso […]
Alarcon Bustos Conducts Workshop at Conference
Poliana Alarcon Bustos, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, co-conducted a workshop at the recent Third Annual Achieving Change Together conference on November 7, 2023. The theme of the conference was “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Cultivating Educational Excellence in Education.” There were over 75 workshops, over 95 presenters, and 2800 participants. For the workshop, […]
Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at BU
The Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at BU recently concluded another successful season! The theme for this year was reel/real life, and each of the 7 Francophone films screened this year centered on quests for truth, authenticity, and identity. Co-organizers Tiffany Bailey, Eleonora Mancuso, and Kara Saar were pleased to see many people from inside and outside […]
Global House Hosts Azorean Chef
PBS Television’s very own Azorean Greenbean, Maria Lawton, star and producer of the show Maria’s Portuguese Table visited Boston University’s Global House at Myles Standish Hall as a guest of the Portuguese program. Maria presented on her Azorean heritage, Portuguese culture and cuisine, and the Capelinhos volcanic eruption that led to the Azorean Refugee Act […]
Jennifer Cazenave Quoted in Le Monde
Assistant Professor of French Jennifer Cazenave has been quoted in the prestigious French newspaper Le Monde, in an article about Claude Lanzmann’s magnum opus, the film Shoah. Cazenave’s book (An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah) is mentioned, and Cazenave is quoted discussing the outtakes from Shoah.
Jennifer Cazenave Publishes Article on Shoah
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, recently published an article about the outtakes from Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah for Balises, which is the magazine of the Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) housed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris: https://www.bpi.fr/balises-11/.
Jennifer Cazenave Interviewed
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, was recently interviewed on a French Youtube show about Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the outtakes from it, which was the subject of her first book. Cazenave will also be featured in an upcoming retrospective of Claude Lanzmann’s films to mark his centennial, organized by the Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) […]